Tag: techno
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xPost: Genius!
I’ve just spent the last few hours reading one site: http://timhunkin.com/ – I remember him from the excellent Secret Life of Machines TV series (which I’m getting on torrent now, and he links to the torrent from his site! Along with putting all of his cartoons online, respect the man knows what it’s about :-D).…
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Radio Clash 129: 303:20
Do you like my tribute to Acid House covers? And can you spot all the hidden smileys? It’s been over 20 years since the introduction of that little silver box and the squiggly bassline and so here’s a show dedicated to acid house and it’s influences, myself included. Big thanks for AudioOut blog for inspiring…
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Andrew Keen RSA lecture
I went to a lecture and discussion called ‘The Digital Seduction’ at Royal Society of Arts last night. Speaking was Andrew Keen, author of ‘The Cult of the Amateur’ and Tim Montgomery, editor of ConservativeHome.com (I am SO not linking that), and humorously chaired by Matthew Taylor, RSA Chief Executive. There’s been a lot of…
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Web 2.0? 0.0.0.2 more like
Once upon a time, there was a little powercut in San Francisco… Why should I care you say? Well seeing that one powercut can wipe out Livejournal, Second Life, Craigslist, Technorati, Typepad…the list goes on, you wonder why in this apparent age of Web 2.0 these systems are still susceptible to one fatal flaw –…
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Applecack
Now frequent readers of this blog will know how much I love Apple, and when Charles II the iPod went wrong a few weeks back (problems with the headphone and docking socket, freezes, havign to keep restoring it) 10 months into the warrant, I wasn’t holding out much hope. The speed of Applecare’s response and…
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Second Life part deux
Weird I should post about Second Life then next day on UKPodcasting forum see not one but 2 links posted to blog entries, first from Clay Shirkin and the response from Eric Rice. Ever weirder is that they seem to echo some of the ideas I’ve been thinking about recently as I traverse real and…